[Fedora-trans-ar] Our beloved qamoose

Munzir Taha munzirtaha at newhorizons.com.sa
Sun Dec 19 15:04:42 UTC 2004


On Yaum al-Ahad 07 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 2:54 pm, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

> It uses HTML encoding, which is readable regardless of the encoding you
> choose.

> If you looked at it in the database it will look like
> أخى يحيى


Ah! you mean html entities.

> So now, it is not a good idea to store it that way. Normally, it is
> expected that when the page loads in utf-8, the user wouldn't change the
> encoding from the browser to cp-1256, or it would become an intentional
> call for headache :)

Why do you think it's not a good idea storing it that way?

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